Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols takes a look at how a simple concept like privacy gets complicated fast when development, authentication and millions of users enter the mix.

Smaller primates expend no more energy climbing than they do walking. This surprising discovery may explain the evolutionary edge that encouraged the tiny ancestors of modern humans, apes and monkeys to climb into the trees about 65 million years ago and stay there.

- In Part 3 of his SOA series Eric Giguere explores how to do SOA when the target device does not support Web Services (JSR 172). Dig in to learn what your options are.

Former OLPC executive Walter Bender formed a nonprofit organization to promote the open-source development of Sugar, the user interface found on XO laptops.